Cine film of Leeds city centre in the late 60s
Posted: Wed 22 Aug, 2018 7:33 pm
You might be interested in these shots that my dad filmed, probably when he was testing his new Super 8 cine camera, in the late 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZi6EPdoRNA
There's also a brief segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZgGr6g8po showing the Black Prince in City Square, cranes on the River Aire and the river emerging from the Dark Arches, which my dad may have intended to use as the opening shots of a film he made about the Aire at Malham, to show the contrast between the small stream and the mighty river.
- Dome of Leeds Town Hall
- Unidentified tower block
- Shops in Merrion Street, seen from Albion Street junction (goes on a bit!)
- Merrion Street exit from Merrion Centre (including a lopsided woman struggling to walk down the slope while carrying a heavy bag!)
- Unidentified road with Timberland "DIY Supermarket"
- Advertising hoarding for Telefusion colour TVs which dates film to very late 60s when Emley Moor began broadcasting colour
- Advertising hoarding for High & Dry gin
- Newsagent booth (near Merrion Centre?)
- Wade Lane looking south towards Merrion Street
- The Headrow, looking east, opposite side to Schofields, so Lewis's on LHS (my wife now works in an office in the old Lewis's building)
- The Headrow looking west towards Town Hall
- Briggate (?) - I remember overhead gantry signs and I think those were at the top end of Briggate
- Leeds Army & Navy Store - where?
- Jewellers selling Albion watches - where?
- Ivey Travel - junction of Lands Lane and Albion Place
- Commercial Street - WH Smith in arches of building which houses The Leeds Library (a blink-and-you've-missed-it shot!)
- Closing zoom out from Leeds Town Hall dome
There's also a brief segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYZgGr6g8po showing the Black Prince in City Square, cranes on the River Aire and the river emerging from the Dark Arches, which my dad may have intended to use as the opening shots of a film he made about the Aire at Malham, to show the contrast between the small stream and the mighty river.